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Riverview

Jerry Johnson is the Financial V.P. for Montvale Corporation. Montvale is a nonprofit corporation that supervises the operations of several continuing care retirement communities. In 1990 Montvale began construction of a new retirement community called Riverview. The first full year that Riverview was in operation was 1993. By January 1994, they had reached 99% capacity with a total capacity being 356 people. They charged an entrance fee of $186,000 per apartment and each resident paid monthly dues on the average of $2,100 for one person and $770 for a second person. Montvale's policy was that they charge fees that were fair to both the resident's and the organization. They tried to budget fees so that they incurred just a modest allowance for working capital. It is now April 1994 and Jerry Johnson has just met with Walter Heaney, the administrator and Jeanne Mills, the controller of Riverview. They discuss the operating activities of Riverview over the next 5 years and also its capital requirements over the next 20 years.

Heaney and Mills bring forward two plans to change their format and the way they approach fixed assets. They want to change the focus to monthly fees needed to cover estimated expenses. They also want to eliminate depreciation and instead use debt to service principal, minor capital expenditures, and provision for renewal because unlike the depreciation number they affect future cash flows. They plan to establish a fund to provide for major renewals over the next 20 years at $70,000 a year and expand the health care unit in 2000 by $840,000.

The main problem with these plans is that eliminating depreciation would not follow GAAP principles. They would use the figures just for internal uses but, Montvale's audit committee didn't like inconsistency with their published statements. Also, they new proposal would cause the residents to end up paying for future renewals that they wouldn't benefit from. This seems to be inconsistent...

...Problem Summary
The Riverview Children’s Hospital is eight months behind schedule with the implementation of a new computerized financial system. Management wants the system to be in place by the end-of-year audit [April], which is only six weeks away. However, management estimates that there is only a fifty percent chance that the system will function correctly if its implementation is rushed. While this makes a case for delaying the implementation, it also pushes the schedule into another fiscal year, bringing a large set of expenses over with it. The board wants to avoid this. A decision must be made that weighs the pros and cons of pursuing implementation before the audit versus the delay of the implementation until after the audit.
Analysis of the Implementation to Date
To date, the implementation has suffered from a variety of problems. Starting from the top, there is a disconnect between management and staff. While Louis Bernard, the AED of Finance, has prior experience with healthcare accounting, he does not have experience overseeing the implementation of computer systems. By his own admission, he does not have the interest in doing so and would prefer to have an MIS manager overseeing those duties. He also has to split his duties between overseeing Riverview and the nearby Thornhill hospital.
The hospital staff has continuously misled Louis about the progress of the project at each milestone, and his lack of...

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How is cultural identity either embraced or rejected by the characters in Ivan Sen's film Beneath Clouds?
Analyse how this is reflected in the journey of Lena and Vaughn.
Cultural identity is the identity of a group, culture, or individual in so much as one is influenced by themselves belonging to a group or culture. Cultural identity is rejected by the characters in Iven Sen’s film Beneath Clouds and Art Spieglman’s Maus. In Beneath Clouds this is demonstrated and reflected in the journey of Lena and Vaughn. Lena, Vaugh and Art experience journeys in search of cultural identity but their search is indeed a search for identity and belonging which is often rejected by the characters themselves. This essay will discuss…
Sen embraces typical stereotypes of cultural identity in Vaughn and Lena but juxtaposes that with the majority of the other characters in the film. These minor characters judge Lena and Vaughn due to their race and class. During their journey, Lena and Vaughn come across people who reject their cultural identity. This is evident in the corn scene when the property owner specifically tells Vaughn, labelled as a “black bastard”, to get off his land when Lena was equally responsible, however but due to her colour which reflects her half-cast identity, she was not held accountable. This is also seen in the tree-cutting scene when the policeman is hostile towards Vaughn and sides with the white boy in their dispute. Displaying the rejection...

...﻿“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” Does your study of texts support this perspective?
Loneliness and solitude are closely juxtaposed to show the over all effect of going it alone. The great Gatsby supports this perspective as it contrasts solitude and loneliness through the protagonist Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby. Beneath the clouds shows the aspects of facing isolation when uncontrollable and controllable.
The great Gatsby highlights the quote through contrasting loneliness and solitude. Solitude is expressed through the protagonist nick caraway, as he grapples with the meaning of the story in which he played a part in. Carraway is isolated in the society of the “egg” were he lives in “a weather-beaten cardboard bungalow at eight a month”, compared to the mansions of the western and eastern egg. A metaphor shows how the great Gatsby supports the quote as Carraways lack of wealth creates solitude for himself were he misses the dramas of the rich showing the glory of solitude.
Isolation in beneath the clouds is both controllable and uncontrollable as seen through the decisions or Vaughn and Lena. Lena and Vaughn both experiencing the aspect of loneliness when there isolation is uncontrollable. Metaphorically the fences in the prison show the Vaughn has no control and his isolation is uncountable. This agrees with the quote as the tree scene...

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Kontum high school quarterback Dylan Ross carried his football gear. Standard equipment for the day’s practice; it weighed about three pounds, he figured. Cleats. Gym shorts. Mouth-guard. His shoulder brace. The bag was a constant reminder of the feeling. The feeling of a crowd, of the game. Of his father’s proud smile from the bleachers. He would thumb through the contents of the bag during class sometimes, when no one was looking, just looking over the objects, making sure they were all there; none missing. He would sometimes unstrap the Velcro of his brace, refitting it over and over again. Changing it mere millimeters every time; getting the size perfect without it ever touching his arm. By the time he was through, the strap was the same length as it was when he had started. A small part of him knew this reality. A large part of him didn’t care. He spent the majority of his core classes in a daze, wishing he were on the field. Wishing he were with his team. His thoughts were full of plays, of routes, of whistle-blowing and coach-yelling.
Pay attention man. His teammates’ whispers carried across the class. He was. Sometimes; sometimes not. Always. Never.
Poor attendance and a slipping grade point average plagued his coaching staff’s thoughts almost as much as they did Dylan himself. Ineligibility this time of the year would be a big hit to everyone, especially him. The playoffs had started and it was looking like Kontum...

...﻿Stephanie Crum
Mrs. Swihart
Period 7
16 January 2015
Paradise of the Blind Supervised Essay
In the novel Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, the author uses diction from the perspective of Hang to set the foundation of the novel as well as to establish the essential element of Hang’s journey through time and space in relation to her family. Motifs are vital in the novel to draw attention to certain aspects in order to bring out the emotional experiences of Hang’s journey along with her interactions with other characters. Motifs are expressed to portray the influence of cultural aspects on Hang’s emotions and conscience. Imagery, portrayed in the novel is expressed through intense diction as the beautiful landscapes she describes is contradicted with harsh comments that reflect society. As Hang matures from innocence to maturity, it is evident Huong is displaying Hang’s coming of age story through the use of various techniques. In result, Hang becomes aware of herself, her Vietnamese culture, and her family. The author utilizes the techniques of diction, motifs and imagery to interpret the emotional journey Hang experiences through various changes as she discovers herself and is able to find her place in the world resulting in her ultimate acknowledgement that she does not have to abide by expectations of Vietnamese culture and familial obligations.
Huong uses careful diction to portray the perspective of Hang as she travels through her journey and comes to her...

...In part 1 of Makers: Women Who Make America it talks about how it was complicated for women in society, because they weren’t treated equally as men. People viewed women as being less capable of what man could do. When they interviewed …… she explain how women weren’t able to run in the Boston marathon. She had a good interest in running and thought women should be able to run in the marathon as well. So she sign up for the race with just her initials, and when she was in the race everyone was surprised. When she crossed the finished line she showed how women could be good at certain sports just as men. Also another scene from the movie is when women didn’t have many job opportunities as men. It was hard for them to get jobs they were criticized by men who didn’t think it was right for women to work other than stay home and take care of their family.Also when they interview Carolyn Graglia she saids all the things women at home can do which is extremely worth while is dismissed and uworthy of any respect. This made women feel as if they were unworthy to society.
In part 2 of Makers: Women Who Make America it explains how women were tired of not being tried equal in society anymore so they wanted to be treated completely different so they started an women movement rights and discovered feminism. One scenes from the movie that showed this is the battle of the sexs. That was a tennis match between Bobby Ricks and best female tennis player Billie Jean King. Billie won the...

...﻿Chapter 3 : Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
Explain the connections between climate, agriculture, and the Nile River in the development of Egypt and Nubia.
Egypt referred to not the territory embraced by the modern state of Egypt, but to the ribbon of land bordering the lower third of the Nile between the Mediterranean and the river's first cataract near Aswan. Cataracts are an unnavigable stretch of rapids and waterfalls. The Sahara became increasingly arid, cultivators flocked to the Nile Valley and established societies that depended on intensive agriculture. Egyptians were able to take better advantage of the Nile's annual floods than the Nubians to the south because of their broad floodplains. They turned Egypt into an especially productive agricultural region that was capable of supporting a much larger population than were Nubian lands. The Greek Historian Herodotus proclaimed Egypt the "Gift of the Nile" because of its prosperity. Migrants from the Red Sea Hills in northern Ethiopia traveled down the Nile Valley and introduced to Egypt and Nubia the practice of collecting wild grains , a language ancestral to Coptic (ancient Egypt) to the lower reaches of the Nile Valley. Sudanic cultivators and herders moved down the Nile as the climate grew hotter and drier introducing Egypt and Nubia to African crops like watermelon and gourds, while Mesopotamians wheat and barley also came. They built dikes to protect their fields from floods and catchment...